Rice and wheat provide nearly 40%of human calorie and protein requirements.They share a common ancestor and belong to the Poaceae(grass)family.Characterizing their genetic homology is crucial for developing new cultiv...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(32060466);Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences。
Background Photosystem II(PSII)constitutes an intricate assembly of protein pigments,featuring extrinsic and intrinsic polypeptides within the photosynthetic membrane.The low-molecular-weight transmembrane protein Psb...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100526,31871269);Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2019CFA014);Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education(YCSW2022038);the starting research grant for High-level Talents from Guangxi University。
Advances in the next-generation and long-read sequencing technologies have promoted the development of genome-wide comparative genomics analysis,and constructing pangenomes and identifying structural variations(SVs)ar...
A.M.is supported by an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship ALTF 775-2017 and by HFSPO Fellowship LT000496/2018-L;D.K.S.is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation(NSF)Plant Genome Research Program(1609024);B.S.G.is supported by an NSF grant 1655808;A.B.is supported by The Royal Society(award nos.UF160222 and RGF/R1/180006).
Transposable elements(TEs)regularly capture fragments of genes.When the host silences these TEs,siRNAs homologous to the captured regions may also target the genes.This epigenetic crosstalk establishes an intragenomic...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31572127);the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (No.cstc2012jjB80010);the National Basic Research Program of China (No.2012CB113900);Chongqing Graduate Research and Innovation Project (No.CYS18085).
Armadillo repeat containing 1 (ARC1) is phosphorylated by S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) and functions as a positive regulator in self-incompatibility response of Brassica. However, ARC1 only causes partial breakdown o...
the funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31821001,31822050,31270418 and 31470441).
The explosive accumulation of mammalian genomes has provided a valuable resource to characterize the evolution of the Y chromosome.Unexpectedly,the Y-chromosome sequence has been characterized in only a small handful...
Genetic linkage maps are valuable tools in evolutionary biology;however, their availability for wild populations is extremely limited. Fundulus heteroclitus (Atlantic killifish) is a non-migratory estuarine fish that ...
funded by the National High Technology R&D Program of China(2012AA100101);the National Program on Key Basic Research Projects of China(The 973 Program,2012CB113906);NSFC funding(31272179)
FT and its homolog, TWIN SISTER OF FT(TSF), act redundantly as integrators in flora transition pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana. The evolution of these key fl wering regulatory genes during Brassicaceae speciation has...
The National Nature Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41006107, 31072202 and 31130057;the National High-Technology R&D Program of China (863 Program) under contract No. 2012AA10A403-2;the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest of China under contract No. 200903046;Taishan Scholar Project Fund of Shandong of China
The cyp19ala gene encodes an aromatase that plays a key role in sex differentiation of the gonad. The first bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) sequence of half-smooth tongue sole (Cynoglossus sernilaeuis) conta...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.30700450 and 30971878);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2009QNA6024),China
Plants utilize multiple layers of defense mechanisms to fight against the invasion of diverse pathogens.The R gene mediates resistance,in most cases,dependent on the co-existence of its cognate pathogen-derived avirul...